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- New Menus for Windows 1.4
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- Vendor Information
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- Name of the Archive
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- NMFW141E.ZIP
- or
- NM141E.ZIP
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- One line description
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- New Menus f. Win. Win95/X-Win-like graph. Popup-Menu Win 3.1-Shell
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- Replaces:
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- NMW12??.ZIP
- NMFW11?.ZIP
- MENU10?.ZIP
- MENU09?.ZIP
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- Suggested category/Keyword:
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- / MS Windows / Desktop
- or
- / MS Windows / Shell
- or
- /MS Windows / Program Managers
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- WIN SHELL UNIX-LIKE MENU PROGRAM-MANAGER
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- Author/Publisher Information:
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- Dipl.Ing. Roger Rene Kommer
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- EMail:
- Internet: roger@architektur.uni-kassel.de
- CIS: 100412,3624
- Fido: 2:2437/501.10
- Suface address:
- Roger Rene Kommer
- Doernbergstr. 11
- D - 34119 Kassel
- Germany
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- System requirements
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- Windows/WfW 3.1
- Mouse recommended
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- Shareware payment required from private users:
- Yes (20$ US)
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- Shareware payment required from corporates:
- Yes (20$ US)
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- Demo / NagWare:
- NO
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- Self-documenting:
- NO
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- External documentation included:
- Windows Helpfile, ~120 pages English
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- Sources included:
- NO
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- Size of archive:
- ~550 kb compressed / ~1.6 MB uncompressed
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- DISTRIBUTION
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- You have my permission to distribute New Menus for Windows 1.4
- with following restrictions:
- You may not use New Menus for Windows 1.4 in advertisements,
- catalogs, or other literature which describes this product as
- "FREE SOFTWARE". Shareware is "Try-Before-You-Buy" software, it
- is not free.
- Please keep all files listed below together in the archive, or in
- an archive format suitable for your library.
- I would appreciate copies of anything you print regarding New
- Menus for Windows. Please send me a copy of any reviews,
- articles, catalog descriptions, or other information you print or
- distribute regarding the New Menus for Windows package. Thank you
- for your time and assistance and for supporting the shareware
- marketing concept.
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- DESCRIPTIONS
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- 1 line description, 30 chars:
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- Win95/XWin-like Win3.1-Shell
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- 1 line description, 50 chars:
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- Win95/XWin-like graph. Popup-Menu Win 3.1-Shell
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- 2 line description, a 50 chars:
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- New Menus for Windows v1.4 <ASP> - Win95/Motif/
- OpenLook like shell and Desktop enhancement
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- 250 Byte
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- New Menus for Windows v1.4 <ASP> - Win4/Motif/OpenLook like
- shell and desktop enhancement with Graph. popup menus w. icons
- and a needle to stick it on the desktop, Virtual Desktop and
- context sensitive Menus.
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- 10 lines description a 45 chars:
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- New Menus for Windows v1.4 <ASP> - a Win-
- shell similar to the UNIX X-Windows Manger
- OpenLook, Motif and the 'Chicago' GUI. With a
- graph. popup menu to a quick access to apps,
- docs, directories, tasks and more. Enhances
- window managment with a Virtual Desktop,
- layout functions and enhanced system menu.
- Provides customizable context senstive menus.
- Every menu, even apps menus, can be stuck
- onto the desktop. Multi-user configuration.
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- 750 byte
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- New Menus for Windows v1.4 <ASP> - Win4/Motif/OpenLook like
- shell and desktop enhancement with graphical popup menus, Virtual
- Desktop and X-Window like window managment. Every time you push
- the right mousebutton (or a Hotkey) a popup menu appears for
- quick access to your applications, documents, directories(!),
- tasks, Program-Manager groups, Windows API (or DLL-functions) and
- keyboard macros. All menuitems are shown with icon, available in
- several graph. styles and can be grouped in submenus - as many
- and as deep as you like. Every Menu can be stuck onto the desktop
- with a needle - even normal application menus! Enhances DOS-boxes,
- File-Manager and edit controls with context sensitive popupmenus.
- Allows multi-user configuration. Shareware.
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- Short description (1500 bytes)
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- New Menus for Windows 1.4 <ASP> is a shell and a desktop enhancement
- for MS Windows 3.1, quite similar to some window managers of the
- X-window system (GUI of UNIX f.e. Motif, OpenLook) and the upcoming
- GUI of Windows 95, with many features, lean resource needs (82% GDI &
- 95% USER) and highly configurable. To launch programs, you just have
- to push the right (or middle) mousebutton to get a graphic popup menu.
- The programs and documents can be grouped in submenus. The items are
- visualized with icons. Each submenu can be stuck to your desktop with
- a needle. The Menu supports the Program Manager-groups, wild cards,
- directory browsing, Windows API (DLL) calls, batches with keyboard
- macros, etc. Many special functions for window and task management are
- available. Windows can be activated by only moving the mouse into the
- window. Another basic feature is the possibility to stick normal
- application menus onto the desktop. The systemmenus can be enhanced
- and customized by the user. Some window controls (edit control, File
- Manager, DOS-box, etc.) have enhanced features, which are accessible
- via context sensitive popup-menus. The user can also compile their own
- individual context sensitive menus for all window programs. With the
- integrated Virtual Desktop, a desktop up to 64 larger is accessible
- with a mouse click. The layout of windows can be saved in the context
- of Virtual Desktops. The Menu supports system administration for
- multi-user installations.
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- Long description
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- Windows at your fingertips: New Menus for Windows 1.4 is a
- Windows Shell, similar to some of the window managers of
- X-Windows (UNIX GUI, e.g. Motif, OpenLook).
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- THE MENUING SYSTEM
- The kernel of the program is a replacement for the Program
- Manager in a popup menu format, which you can popup at any time
- with the right or middle mouse button. This popup menu can have
- as many submenus (like subdirectories in a file system) as you
- like. The menu items can be programs, documents or function
- calls. But the popup menu is not a simple, normal, windows popup
- menu. It doesn't look like one and it behaves differently. An
- icon and description are displayed for all programs and documents
- Ad libitum. These icons can have a size of 32, 24 or 16 pixels -
- it is even possible to represent menu items as animated icons. By
- default the icons of the programs, or of the applications
- associated with documents, are shown. You can also customise the
- icons. The font and font size is also configurable. For each
- submenu, you can choose to display the text only, the icon only
- or both. To frame a menu item, you can choose between 4 styles,
- of which one simulates the Design of Motif and another of
- OpenLook. From OpenLook, another idea is implemented for Windows:
- every (sub-)menu can be stuck onto the desktop. You can install
- new menu items similar to the Program Manager Menu Groups or Menu
- Items. Installation of new menu items is supported by dialogues
- or via drag'n drop. During installation, the Program Manager
- groups are converted into menu items. When working with
- documents, you do not have to install each file as a menu item.
- New Menus for Windows supports wild cards, which automatically
- fill submenus with matching files. It is also possible to include
- parts of a file system into the menu structure: The
- subdirectories are submenus and all files are menu items. These
- dynamically built menu items can be sorted by name, extension,
- date or size (also in reverse order). If you stick a (sub-)menu
- on your desktop you can use it as a button bar, which also
- supports drag'n'drop with the File manager. With a menu item you
- can do more than launch a program or open a file: You can declare
- Keyboard macros or you can call a system-function of Windows or
- of another DLL. Whole submenus can be executed as batches. In a
- Tasks-Submenu you can switch between your running applications -
- which are shown with their icons and titles - hide windows, or
- terminate the applications. In another Submenu you can switch
- between your installed printers, invoke their property-dialogue
- or drag files to print on a specific printer. In a submenu called
- History, all executed items are listed as a command history.
- Other special features are only listed by name: Rebooting
- Windows, rebooting DOS; quit Windows - execute DOS-program -
- restart Windows, Save all documents in all programs; Close all
- applications; the layout functions of Taskman; Save Desktop
- (window positions); Kill a window; etc. The access to Submenus is
- highly customisable, several mouse button / keyboard combinations
- are supported (also an emulation of the middle mouse button). You
- can assign a global hotkey to each submenu or menu item (in
- combination with keyboard macros you can also redefine your
- keyboard layout). To jump quickly from one Submenu to another,
- you can use shortcuts.
- All of these options are configurable via dialogues. The menu
- structure is edited with a 'visual menu editor', including
- copying and moving single items or whole menu structure sub
- trees.
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- VIRTUAL DESKTOP AND WINDOW MANAGEMENT
- From the X-Window system, two more ideas are implemented in New
- Menus for Windows. With a built in Virtual Desktop you can
- magnify your desktop into 64 virtual desktops. You can access any
- one of the virtual desktops by clicking in the Virtual Desktop
- viewer. Known by OpenLook and Motif, is the possibility to
- activate a window just by moving the mouse cursor. With one mode
- of the XMouse feature you can automatically bring the window up
- to the front of all other windows by only moving the mouse into
- any part of the window. With the other mode, the window under the
- mouse cursor will be activated, but the order of the window stack
- will not be changed.
- All of these features are integrated in the menuing system. With
- the enhanced system menu, the behavior in the context of the
- Virtual Desktop and the XMouse of single windows are
- customizable.
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- ENHANCEMENT OF THE STANDARD WINDOWS
- APPLICATIONS DROP DOWN MENUS
- If you select a normal drop down menu of a windows application
- with the right mouse button (e.g. the "Edit" menu in Write) you
- get a new designed menu. Besides the nicer (customisable) look of
- this menu you can stick it onto the desktop and use it as a
- button bar. That is, if you have to switch between several
- documents in a multi-document based program often, you can stick
- the menu "Window" onto the desktop and have quick access. The
- System menu is also enhanced - here is the key to a nicer and
- more functional System menu with the right mouse button. The
- standard functions in the System menu are also illustrated with
- icons. Instead of the item "switch to..." you get a Submenu with
- all Tasks. You can hold each window at the top of the desktop
- (like the clock). You can append more menu items and submenus to
- the system menu.
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- ENHANCEMENT OF WINDOWS CONTROLS WITH
- CONTEXT SENSITIVE POPUP MENUS
- More and more applications use the right mouse button to give a
- quicker context sensitive access to objects the mouse points at.
- New Menus provides some context sensitive menus which are
- 'forgotten' by Windows:
- Edit controls (e.g. notepad): Copy; Cut; Insert; Undo; Mark all;
- Search; Save (ANSI, ASCII, UNIX); convert all lower or higher
- case; statistics. Format paragraphs with left margin, left,
- middle, center or right and left align.
- List boxes: Copy the string of the marked item.
- Scroll Bars: Up, down, left, right.
- File-Manager: Copy marked files / directory as text string (which
- you can use as arguments for other programs); Load file in FileViewer
- or FileEditor; Print File; file operations (copy, move, etc.).
- DOS-Box: Mark; Copy; Insert
- It is relatively simple to customize your applications with other
- context sensitive menus. To extract the menus from a window
- program, a tool is enclosed in the package.
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- MULTI-USER CONFIGURATION
- New Menus for Windows supports different configurations for
- different users and network administration. First, you can
- declare an individual INI-file as a command line (also as an
- argument for WIN.COM). Each user can modify his own
- configuration. But a system administrator can also hold
- predefined menu files in a directory in the path, which can be
- linked as submenus to individual menu structures. These external
- menus can be locked against changes. If a new application is
- installed in the network, the system administrator will only have
- to modify one file.
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- OTHER QUALITIES
- New Menus has very lean runtime resource requirements. It needs
- at minimum ca. 40kB non discardable RAM and 2% of the
- system-resources, which does not depend on the size of the menu
- structure. What you need is Windows 3.1(1) or WfW. New Menus
- supports all mice and trackballs, but you can also use the Menu
- without a mouse.
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- AVAILABLE
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- English version:
- ftp.cica.indiana.edu:/pub/windows/desktop/nmfw141e.zip
- (or mirrors)
- garbo.uwasa.fi:/windows/desktop/nmfw141e.zip
- (or mirrors)
- ftp.uni-koeln.de:/pc/win3/manager/nmfw141e.zip
- CompuServe: GO WINSHARE, Lib Program Managers nm141e.exe
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- German version:
- ftp.uni-koeln.de:/pc/win3/manager/nmfw141g.zip
- ftp.fu-berlin.de:/pub/pc/win3/misc/nmfw141g.zip
- ftp.hrz.uni-kassel.de:/pub/machines/dos/win3/nmfw141g.zip
- CompuServe: GO GERWIN, Lib Tools nm141g.exe
- Fido: 2:2437/501 - 2:2437/502 (49-561-5740777, 49-561-573967) nmfw141g.arj
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- Thanks for your attention.
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